Fictioning Namibia As A Space Of Desire

Author : Renzo Baas
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783906927091

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Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire by Renzo Baas Pdf

Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the dream of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to dream Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvres city-countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibias first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa.

Author : Nicola Brandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000211597

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Landscapes between Then and Now by Nicola Brandt Pdf

In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era. By examining specific artworks made in South Africa, Namibia and Angola, Brandt sheds light on established and emerging themes related to aftermath landscapes, embodied histories, (un)belonging, spirituality and memorialization. She shows how landscape and identity are mutually constituted, and profiles this process against the background of the legacy of the acutely racially divisive policies of the apartheid regime that are still reflected on the land. As a signpost throughout the book, Brandt draws on the work of the renowned South African photographer Santu Mofokeng and his critical thinking about landscape. Landscapes Between Then and Now explores how practitioners who engage with identity and their physical environment as a social product might reveal something about the complex and fractured nature of postcolonial and contemporary societies. Through diverse strategies and aesthetics, they comment on inherent structures and epistemologies of power whilst also expressing new and radical forms of self-determinism. Brandt asks why these cross-disciplinary works ranging from social documentary to experimental performance and embodied practices are critical now, and what important possibilities for social and political reflection and engagement they suggest.

Author : Sarala Krishnamurthy,Nelson Mlambo,Helen Vale
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783906927411

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Writing Namibia by Sarala Krishnamurthy,Nelson Mlambo,Helen Vale Pdf

A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior academics as well as emerging scholars from Namibia. The book includes wide ranging topics in literature written in English and other Namibian languages, such as German, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. Almost thirty years after independence, Namibia literature has come of age with new writers experimenting with different genres and varied aspects of literature. As an aesthetic object and social phenomenon, Namibian literature still fulfils the function of social conscience and as new writers emerge, there is ample demonstration that, pluri-vocal as they are, Namibian literary texts relate in a complex manner to the socio-historical trends shaping the country. The Namibian literary-critical tradition continues to paint some versions of Namibia and what we find in this new and highly welcome volume is a canvas of rich voices and perspectives that demonstrate an intricate diversity in terms of culture, language, and themes.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager,Martha Akawa,Giorgio Miescher,Romie Nghitevelekwa,Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466391

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The Lower !Garib - Orange River by Luregn Lenggenhager,Martha Akawa,Giorgio Miescher,Romie Nghitevelekwa,Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule Pdf

The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Daniel Poch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231550468

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Licentious Fictions by Daniel Poch Pdf

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. He explores how cultural anxieties about the power of literature in mediating emotions and desire shaped Japanese narrative from the late Edo through the Meiji period. Poch argues that the Meiji novel, instead of superseding earlier discourses and narrative practices surrounding ninjō, complicated them by integrating them into new cultural and literary concepts. He offers close readings of a broad array of late Edo- and Meiji-period narrative and critical sources, examining how they shed light on the great intensification of the concern surrounding ninjō. In addition to proposing a new theoretical outlook on emotion, Licentious Fictions challenges the divide between early modern and modern Japanese literary studies by conceptualizing the nineteenth century as a continuous literary-historical space.

Author : Gillian Cross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192751514

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Born of the Sun by Gillian Cross Pdf

Paula is thrilled when her explorer father pulls her out of school to climb the mountains of Peru. But as they penetrate the jungle, her father's decisions no longer seem sound, and their native guide dies as a result. Why won't he turn back?

Author : Casper W. Erichsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Damara (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132097424

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What the Elders Used to Say by Casper W. Erichsen Pdf

Author : Wolfram Hartmann,Jeremy Silvester,Patricia Hayes
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1919713220

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The Colonising Camera by Wolfram Hartmann,Jeremy Silvester,Patricia Hayes Pdf

Richly illustrated with black and white photographs, this book brings together provocative and exciting new material on Namibia's colonial past. An eight-page colour section looks at how present day Namibians view themselves. It includes contributions from the editors, Wolfram Hartman, Jeremy Silvester and Patricia Hayes, as well as Michel Bollig, Jan Bart Gewald, Robert Gordon, Brent Harris, Paul Landau, Rick Rohde, Margo Timm and Marion Wallace.

Author : Nyongesa, Andrew
Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780797495470

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity by Nyongesa, Andrew Pdf

Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups. In their attempt to negotiate their existence, some decide to stick to the culture of their mother nations and some stand in the middle, and blend some aspects of their mother culture and the new culture. Although immigrants who remain closer to their own cultures are easily spotted and relegated, they are assigned a place on the identity continuum, whereas immigrants who choose to stand in the middle run the danger of being neither this nor that, neither here nor there, and can undergo severe internal fragmentation. In this book, Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures, Andrew Nyongesa delves into these two strategies of resistance and analyzes the merits and demerits of each with reference to Safi Abdi’s fiction.

Author : Sanusi, Ramonu
Publisher : Graduke Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789785041422

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Portrayals and Gender Palaver in Francophone African Writings by Sanusi, Ramonu Pdf

The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of African women writers on the African literary space earlier dominated by African men. African women’s writings largely focus on deconstructing the patriarchal order, religious prescription and cultural mores in order to tear women’s veil of invisibility. The topics covered in the book are comprehensive and include among others: The Francophone African Novel; Religious and cultural constructs of African women; The poetic constructs of African women; Fictional constructs of subaltern African women; Marriage and the subordination of women; Physical and sexual exploitation of women; Women and Polygamy in men’s fiction; African women writers and the utilitarian function of their art; Female protagonists in fiction by African women; Discourse on the oppressors and the oppressed; African feminism/Western Feminism.

Author : Krishnamurthy, Sarala,Vale, Helen
Publisher : University of Namibia Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789991642338

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Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition by Krishnamurthy, Sarala,Vale, Helen Pdf

Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition is a cornucopia of extraordinary and fascinating material which will be a rich resource for students, teachers and readers interested in Namibia. The text is wide ranging, defining literature in its broadest terms. In its multifaceted approach, the book covers many genres traditionally outside academic literary discourse and debate. The 22 chapters cover literature of all categories in Namibia since independence: written and performance poetry, praise poetry, Oshiwambo orature, drama, novels, autobiography, women’s writing, subaltern studies, literature in German, Ju|’hoansi and Otjiherero, children’s literature, Afrikaans fiction, story-telling through film, publishing, and the interface between literature and society. The inclusive approach is the book’s strength as it allows a wide range of subjects to be addressed, including those around gender, race and orature which have been conventionally silenced.

Author : Susanne Zantop
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822382119

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Colonial Fantasies by Susanne Zantop Pdf

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of "Germans" with "natives" in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany’s colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory—or love and blissful domestic relations between colonizer and colonized. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others.

Author : Rémy Ngamije
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982164430

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The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije Pdf

"Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this "gorgeous, wildly funny and, above all, profoundly moving and humane" (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"--

Author : Andindilile, Michael
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033231

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The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum by Andindilile, Michael Pdf

Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary–Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines selected of novels of Achebe of Nigeria, Ngũgĩ of Kenya, Gordimer of South Africa and Farah of Somalia and shows that, when we pay close attention to what these authors represent about their African societies, and the way they integrate African languages, values, beliefs and cultures, we can discover what constitutes the Anglophone African literary–linguistic continuum. This continuum can be defined as variations in the literary usage of English in African literary discourse, with the language serving as the base to which writers add variations inspired by indigenous languages, beliefs, cultures and, sometimes, nation-specific experiences.

Author : Jenn Stephenson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487514105

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Insecurity by Jenn Stephenson Pdf

The early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, site-specific theatre, autobiographical theatre, and immersive theatre. Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case. Contemporary audiences are caught between a desire for authenticity and immediacy of connection to a person, place, or experience, and the conditions of our postmodern world that render our lives insecure. The same conditions that underpin our yearning for authenticity thwart access to an impossible real. As a result of the instability of social reality, the audience, Jenn Stephenson explains, is unable to trust the mechanisms of theatricality. The by-product of theatres of the real in the age of post-reality is insecurity.